Production Notes


The idea for “Mira” came about by observing media and different events that have been going on in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and especially in Albania.
The terrible and horrific stories of corruption, killings, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and prostitution are some phenomena that mushroomed after the fall of communism.
Today you see young women in Tirana’s streets with very little clothes covering their bodies, trying very hard to draw men’s attention. Many of them try to make a living and support their families by selling their bodies to whoever is willing to pay for it.
Their smiling faces, happiness, and their little games, all these at first glance make you believe that they’re enjoying what they are doing. But, reality is different, more painful and with more psychological consequences that it looks like. Society of course automatically blames women for their behavior and the path they have chosen.
Yet, if you’re willing to scratch the surface of things a little and start asking questions, you start understanding that the main culprit is the state corruption, the involvement of high ranking politicians in the most perverse and unscrupulous businesses, that are destroying not only the economy of a country but the morality and the ethics of the society and the individuals living in it.

And there seems to be no cure to this curse for as long as corrupted and immoral politicians, as high as at the very top of the government, sit and govern the social affairs of a country.